And Abraham drew near and said, Would You destroy the righteous with the wicked, and shall the righteous be as the wicked?

And now, [my] son Solomon, know the God of your fathers, and serve Him with a perfect heart and a willing soul; for the Lord searches all hearts, and knows every thought: if you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you should forsake Him, He will forsake you forever.

And he went out to meet Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin, and said, Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. The Lord [is] with you, while you are with Him; and if you seek Him out, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

But it is good for me to cleave close to God, to put my trust in the Lord; that I may proclaim all Your praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

The Lord is near to all that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in truth.

And the Lord has said, This people draw near to Me with their mouth, and they honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me; and in vain do they worship Me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men.

Seek the Lord, and when you find Him, call upon Him; and when He draws near to you,

let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels; and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for He shall abundantly pardon your sins.

In their affliction they will seek Me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for He has torn, and will heal us; He will smite, and bind us up.

After two days He will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before Him, and shall know [Him.]

And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord Almighty: Turn to Me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the Lord of hosts.

but you, the sons of Jacob, have not refrained from the iniquities of your fathers: you have perverted My statutes, and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you, says the Lord Almighty. But you said, In what way shall we return?

For the law made nothing perfect; but there [is] the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies having been washed with clean water.

For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,

[ 16:18] Yet there was no injustice on my hands, and my prayer is pure.

But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage.

And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands shall He recompense me.

He that is innocent in his hands and pure in his heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbor.

I will wash my hands in innocence, and compass Your altar, O Lord;

And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocence.

When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away My eyes from you; and though you make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.

Wash, and be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before My eyes; cease from your iniquities;

For whosoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered together shall fall by the sword.

"Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands whenever they eat bread."

And Pilate, seeing that nothing was being gained, but rather a riot was starting, taking water, he washed his hands clean in front of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this just [Man]. You see to it."

I desire therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

which [as] an antitype, baptism now also saves us-(not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but an appeal to God [for] a good conscience), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

For behold, You love truth; You have manifested to me the secret and hidden things of Your wisdom.

You shall sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be purified; You shall wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a steadfast spirit in my inward parts.

At that time they shall say to this people and to Jerusalem, [There is] a spirit of error in the wilderness: the way of the daughter of My people is not to purity, nor to holiness.

Cast away from yourselves all your ungodliness in which you have sinned against Me; and make to yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why should you die, O house of Israel?

and I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be purged from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you.

And I will put My Spirit in you, and will cause you to walk in My ordinances, and to keep My judgments, and do [them].

"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for a tree is known by its fruit.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and unrighteousness.

Blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside of them may be clean also.

But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but the inside of you is full of greed and evil.

Fools! Did not He who made the outside also make the inside?

and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere love for the brothers, love one another fervently from a pure heart,

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.